Grade 2

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Typical Course of Study

Multiple Objective

Learning Page would cover everything for a new Home schooler Free Membership
If you are using the What would my second grader need to know Book for your curriculum outline then you will want to look at the units here and the lessons here for pre-made curriculum.
Kid Zone has a Variety of Free Worksheets

Fine Arts

Social Studies
Jeopardy Game for review
List of these objectives with resources is at About
  • Holidays and festivals
Multicultural Holidays

  • Patriotic celebrations
Patriotic Holidays Activities

  • Communities in other lands: past and present

  • Family and family history
Roots and Relations

  • Families around the world

  • Neighborhoods

  • Community services and helpers

  • Shelters, stores, and food

  • Citizenship and social responsibility

  • Interdependence of people

  • Basic geography: oceans, continents

  • Map skills

Science
  • Useful and harmful animals

  • Life cycle

  • Birds and insects in winter

  • Animal babies

  • Animal defense of themselves and their young


Build your own caterpillar

  • Plant and animal food

  • Dinosaurs and other extinct animals

  • Food chain

  • Plant reproduction and growth

  • Habitats and homes

  • Weather and its effects on earth

  • Effects of the seasons on the lives of people, animals, and plants

  • Climate

  • Water cycle

  • Air and atmosphere

  • Magnets and forces

  • Gravity

  • Earth and sky

  • Sun, moon, planets

  • Simple constellations

  • Exploring space

  • Scientific method and scientific inquiry

Language Arts

Literature Based Units for Grade PreK-4 is a really Nice place to get teaching Ideas. The Most recent unit I am working on there is Beatrix Potter. Pretty soon there will be a bunch of Copy work books and even some math Flash cards.
Free Reading and Grammar Workbook

  • Reading silently for purpose

  • Dramatizations and interpretative or oral reading

  • Use and meaning of quotation marks in reading

  • Story development: beginning, middle, end

  • Simple book reviews

  • Listening skills

  • Organizing ideas and impressions

  • Alphabetizing through second letter of a word

  • Using dictionary guide words

  • Vocabulary development

  • Homonyms, synonyms, antonyms

  • Methods of word attack

  • Ways to study spelling

  • Simple punctuation and capitalization

  • Refining manuscript handwriting

  • Writing independently in manuscript form

  • Brief and simple letters and journals

  • Narration, description, letters, poetry

  • Increasing skill in handling books: table of contents, and index

Health and Safety
National Institute of health
  • Personal cleanliness

  • Dental hygiene

  • Basic food groups
Birds Eye

  • Communicable diseases

  • Preventive measures against disease

  • Neighborhood safety

Mathematics
Hands on activities

Complete math Program from MHSCHOOL has online Manipulatives and printable worksheets!

Printable worksheets

  • Counting, reading, writing to 1,000

  • Counting by 2's, 3's, 4's, 5's, and 10's

  • Ordinal numbers to 10

  • Zero as a place holder

  • Using sets and number facts

  • Addition and subtraction facts to 20

  • Basic multiplication and division facts

Mammoth Math

  • Multiplication and division facts as inverse operations

  • Multiplication properties of 0 and 1

  • Place value through 100's

  • Fractions in daily life

  • Decimal numeration system

  • Basic concept of ratio

  • Geometry puzzles and activities

  • Estimation

  • Common customary and metric measures of time, weight, length, volume, shape, temperature

  • Telling time and using the calendar

  • Handling money (coins)

  • Problem solving

  • Charts and graphs